Lawsuit: Man died from tainted 2002 shot from company now blamed in meningitis outbreak

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This photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 in Westborough, Mass. shows the exterior of Ameridose Sterile Admixing Services, a pharmacy connected to the New England Compounding Center linked to a deadly meningitis outbreak, and which officials said Wednesday has agreed to be shut down for state and federal inspection. (AP Photo/Metrowest Daily News, Marshall Wolff)

Long before the current rash of fungal meningitis, the compounding pharmacy suspected in the outbreak settled a lawsuit alleging it produced a tainted shot that caused a man’s death in 2004.

Officials have identified Framingham, Mass., based-New England Compounding Center as the source of steroid shots suspected in the outbreak of rare fungal meningitis that has killed at least 12 people and made more than 130 others sick in 11 states.

Allegations of a shot tainted with a different form of meningitis were at the heart of a lawsuit filed against the company over the 2004 death. An 83-year-old man died about a year and a half after receiving a shot produced by the company.

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